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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”
Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender. Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Anna Clark, Beaumarchais, Chevalier d'Eon, Comte de Broglie, Debbie Foulkes, Denis Diderot, Edmund Burke, Evelyne Lever, Fernand Jousselin, Gary Kates, Havelock Ellis, Horace Walpole, Ian Herbert, James Boswell, Jean-Baptiste Lilly, Joel Richard Paul, John Coulthart, John Wilkes, Jonathan Conlin, Judith Mackrell, Lou Reed, madame de Pompadour, Marie Antionette, Mark Brownell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maurice Lever, Moliere, Octave Homberg, Paul Kuritz, Philip Core, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Reversal of Alliances, Robert Lepage, Russell Maliphant, Seven Years War, Simon Burrows, Tow Ubukata, Voltaire, William J. Thomas
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ELUSIVE FORTY-FIRST SEAT
A language police and literary garbage removal squad.Painful protocol for a poet to swallow.The Academie Francaise was created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635 as the official agency of linguistic formalism. It began as a reaction against female domination of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Balzac, Beaumarchais, Camus, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles Baudelaire, David, Diderot, Flaubert, Gregory Corso, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, James Redfield, Jean Cocteau, L'Academie Francaise, Leon Vincent, Leon Vincent The French Academy, Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Valentin Contrart, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, William Burroughs
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THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE PHOENIX
The twenty somethings. The Generation Y of his time. The Harry Potter infected mania of the Hapsburgs and the first faint scent of a nostalgic return. Wolfgang Amadeus “Quidditch of Music” Mozart. His patience finally snapped when he was made … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Beaumarchais, Beaumarche, Carlos Saura, Constance Weber, Figaro, Franz Nemecek, Harry Potter, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart, Otto Rank, Quidditch, Robert Louis Stevenson, The marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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